Martha Beck Quotes

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

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• I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Kids
  • Together

• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • Phoenix

• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Lust

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Standard

• A woman's health is her capital.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Health
  • Woman
  • Capital

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Chess

• Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Child
  • Need

• It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Fantastic

• Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Gentleman

• Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

  

  Ben Carson

• One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Storm

• I'm more of a Smithwick's or Bulmer's girl than a pint of Guinness.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Girl

• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heroes
  • Triumphs
  • Battlefields

• As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• They U.S. soldiers are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Pretty

• The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

  

  Martha Beck